Posts by Charles Rukuni

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has stood in the way of plans by Seed Co, the country’s biggest seed producer, to delist the local unit from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange…

Zimbabwe banks will start paying interest on savings accounts with effect from 1 July, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe said in a statement today. It said interest will be paid…

The number of new coronavirus cases in Zimbabwe for June, which peaked at 408 on Friday, has slowed down to 151 today after dropping to 293 yesterday indicating that the…

More than half of the people of Zimbabwe, 52%, went without food several times over the past year while 87% had no cash income many times, according to a survey…

Coronavirus cases in Mashonaland West continue to soar with the province recording 151 new cases and five deaths yesterday raising the number of active cases in the province to 965…

At 12:48 on 10 June my phone alerted me that $200 had just been deducted from my Ecocash account to pay my Ecosure premium. That was odd because I had…

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is so upbeat about the latest forecast by the International Monetary Fund that the county’s economy will grow by 6% this year that he tweeted: “Don’t…

Zimbabweans trust non-governmental organisations more than they do religious and traditional leaders, courts and the President. According to a survey by Afrobarometer released on Thursday, 79% of those polled said…

Nine Zimbabweans died of coronavirus today raising the total for this month to 62 which is higher than deaths in March which stood at 60, April which had 44 and…

The 18 companies that were named and shamed for abusing foreign currency that they obtained from the foreign currency auction system introduced in June last year were allocated a total…